Staff profile: Professor Hilary Tompsett
Position: Professorial Fellow
School: Social Work
Telephone: +44 (0)20 8417 5092
Email: h.tompsett@sgul.kingston.ac.uk
Biography
Hilary is a qualified and registered social worker and worked over a period of 25 years in children’s services, mental health, with older people and in a renal unit as a practitioner and manager. Since 1990 Hilary has worked at Kingston University, lecturing on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and was Head of the School of Social Work for 15 years before stepping down to focus on her role as professorial fellow.
Since 2004 Hilary has been Chair of the Learning and Teaching Committee for JUC SWEC (Joint University Council Social Work Education Committee), representing Universities offering social work education nationally in strategic developments for qualifying and postqualifying courses, workforce development in adults and children’s services, practice learning, and support and standardisation of external examining.
She has been involved in Steering Groups for the Options for Excellence review of social work and social care led by the DH/DfES and the Roles and Tasks Review of Social Work led by GSCC (General Social Care Council). She has also been involved in qualifying and postqualifying social work developments regionally as Chair of the Surrey and Sussex Post Qualifying Consortium Assessment Board since 1997 and currently as Chair of the Surrey and Sussex Social Work Education Group.
Hilary has worked jointly with members of SWAP LTSN (Social Work and Policy learning and teaching support network) and GSCC in developing and evaluating postqualifying programme developments across HEIs, and auditing external examiner reports. In partnership with a local employer she and others worked to develop a workbased route to gaining postqualifying awards, which is currently being evaluated.
Hilary’s research interests are in social work education (including practice education, continuing professional development, supervision and mentoring) and in interprofessional practice, education and policy, in relation particularly to children and older people. She has links with groups in Finland and Russia interested in exploring an understanding of the needs and situations of older people internationally. Currently she is the principal investigator for a DH/DfES funded project on conflicts of interest for GPs when safeguarding children, working with colleagues across the Faculty and St George’s medical school.
Her teaching is focused at postgraduate and undergraduate level mainly alongside her research interests, interprofessional and multi-agency work, child care policy and decision making, power and authority in professional practice. She has also supervised undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations, and been a co-supervisor to the early stages of a PhD student’s work.
Interests
Interprofessional practice and education (with reference to child care and older people); decision making; continuing professional development and mentoring.
Publications
Article
Gallagher, Ann, Wainwright, Paul, Tompsett, Hilary and Atkins, Christine (2011) Findings from a delphi exercise regarding conflicts of interests, general practitioners and safeguarding children: 'listen carefully, judge slowly'. Journal of Medical Ethics, ISSN (print) 0306-6800 (Epub Ahead of Print)
Wainwright, Paul, Gallagher, Ann, Tompsett, Hilary and Atkins, Christine (2010) The use of vignettes within a Delphi exercise: a useful approach in empirical ethics? Journal of Medical Ethics, 36(11), pp. 656-660. ISSN (print) 0306-6800
Tompsett, Hilary (2005) A question of principles - what makes a social worker a social worker? Professional Social Work, pp. 10-11. ISSN (print) 1352-3112
Tompsett, Hilary (2001) Changing systems in health and social care for older people in Japan: observations and implications for interprofessional working. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 15(3), pp. 215-221. ISSN (print) 1356-1820
Monograph
Tompsett, Hilary, Ashworth, Mark, Atkins, Christine, Bell, Lorna, Gallagher, Ann, Morgan, Maggie, Neatby, Rozalind and Wainwright, Paul (2010) The child, the family and the GP: tensions and conflicts of interest for GPs in safeguarding children May 2006 - October 2008 Document 2 Appendices to final report February 2010. (Project Report) London, U.K. : Kingston University. 103 p.
Tompsett, Hilary, Ashworth, Mark, Atkins, Christine, Bell, Lorna, Gallagher, Ann, Morgan, Maggie, Neatby, Rozalind and Wainwright, Paul (2010) The child, the family and the GP: tensions and conflicts of interest for GPs in safeguarding children May 2006-October 2008 Final report February 2010. (Project Report) London, U.K. : Kingston University. 185 p. ISBN 9780955832956
Tompsett, Hilary, Brown, Gill and Skinner, Caroline (2009) PQY - a successful partnership: a collaboration between Surrey County Council and Kingston University School of Social Work: report of an evaluation of the Post Qualifying Year programme (PQY) 1998-2007 leading to the award of PQ1 (Part one of the Post Qualifying Award in Social Work). (Project Report) London, UK : Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, Kingston University and St George's, University of London. 44 p. ISBN 9780955832932
Tompsett, Hilary, Ashworth, Mark, Atkins, Christine, Bell, Lorna, Gallagher, Ann, Morgan, Maggie, Neatby, Rozalind and Wainwright, Paul (2009) The child, the family and the GP: tensions and conflicts of interest for GPs in safeguarding children May 2006-October 2008 Executive summary May 2009 and Research Brief March 2010. (Project Report) London, U.K. : Department for Children, Schools and Families. 21 p.
Lindsay, Jane and Tompsett, Hilary (1998) Careers of practice teachers in London and the South East region (CCETSW). (Project Report) Central Council for the Education and Training of Social Workers (London and South East Region). 50 p. (Submitted)
Grants
- Tompsett H (2006). Conflicts of Interest for GPs when Safeguarding Children. DH/DfES. £125,086: 2006–2008
Consultancies
- Lindsay J; Tompsett H (1998/99). £6.000 Research Consultancy for CCETSW, into the Strategic Development of Practice Teacher Award Holders and Workforce Planning in CCETSW's South East Region
- Lindsay J; Tompsett H (1997/8). £6,000 Research Consultancy for CCETSW, into the Careers of Practice Teacher Award Holders in CCETSW's South East Region
